dequity

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noun

Securities characterized by attributes of both fixed-income and equity securities.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noundequity (uncountable)

alternative debtquity

  1. uncountablebusinessSecurities characterized by attributes of both fixed-income and equity securities.

    For example quasi-debt (or dequity) instruments, such as redeemable preference shares, carry obligations and incentives to perform in order that the shares may be repurchased

    1996, Ken Robbie with Mike Wright, Management buy-ins: entrepreneurship, active investors, and corporate restructuring, page 4
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    This book is the first to fully examine the many recent financial innovations that have blended the traits of debt and equity and created the hybrid security known as dequity.

    1991, Andrew H. Chen with John W. Kensinger, Innovations in dequity financing

    They can be designed with debt-like features so as to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service that they are debt instruments, not equity (or "debtquity" as some refer to junk bonds).

    1996, Richard S. Wilson with Frank J. Fabozzi, Corporate bonds: structures & analysis, page 96

Origin

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